NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 885 MHz
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1425 MHz vs 1185 MHz
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2304
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 44% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 115 Watt
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 20611 vs 17328
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 20611 vs 17328
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 29 January 2019
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 885 MHz
Boost clock speed 1425 MHz vs 1185 MHz
Pipelines 3840 vs 2304
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 vs 17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 vs 17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 vs 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 vs 8912

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

  • 8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 8055 vs 7929
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 8055 vs 7929
Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8055 vs 7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8055 vs 7929

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20611
17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
20611
17328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7929
8055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
7929
8055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
8912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
8912
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 20611 17328
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 20611 17328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7929 8055
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7929 8055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 8912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 8912
PassMark - G3D Mark 11748
PassMark - G2D Mark 483
Geekbench - OpenCL 78123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 168.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1935.102
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 22.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 111.023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1001.496
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6839

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA106 TU106
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 29 January 2019
Place in performance rating 114 178
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1425 MHz 1185 MHz
Core clock speed 900 MHz 885 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 2304
Pixel fill rate 68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 171.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 115 Watt
Transistor count 12000 million 10,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready